Enhancing Your Productivity

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Updated

1/3/2013

Released

3/14/2012

Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the key to enhancing your productivity—focusing on your most valuable activities and minimizing the distractions that waste your time. This course shows you how to determine where you make the most valuable contributions to your company while minimizing and offloading distractions. Create a plan to mind your time and effort and help coworkers and employees discover their most valuable activities, which can result in an office-wide productivity boost.

This course is one of a series of five Dave Crenshaw courses based on his Invaluable teaching methodology for professional development.

Topics include:

Discovering your most valuable activities

Focusing by offloading tasks that weigh you down

Enhancing productivity around the office

Eliminating distractions

Skill Level Intermediate

45m 40s

Duration

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- Are you getting maximum results from your time?Are you focused in your attention?Your answer to these questions,how productive and focused you are,will have a significant effect on your career.In my book Invaluable, I explored how to help individualsincrease the value of their time and quality of work life.In other words, how to become invaluable.This course, enhancing your productivity,is part of a five-course series on helping youbecome invaluable and get the most from your career.

In my coaching, two factors in becoming invaluableare irreplaceability and focus.These two factors go hand-in-handand are the key to enhancing your productivity.Although they serve different purposes,they both affect how you spend your time at work.Irreplaceability is an indicator of how difficultit would be to replace you with someone else.It considers the next best alternativeto you and your services.

To make yourself irreplaceable, you want to understandwhich of your activities are most valuable.I call these, your most valuable activities, or your MVAs.When you spend the majority of your timeon activities that bring the mostto the business's bottom line,you're making yourself irreplaceable.In this course, we'll take you through the processof identifying your most valuable activities.Then you'll compare your resultswith the most valuable activities of your co-workers,including your boss and any people that you may manage.

Why, well by understanding your MVAs and thoseof the people around you, you'll begin to seehow you can fit yourself into the companyin a way that makes you irreplaceable.And that will lead us to the invaluable factor of focus.This factor means that once you've identifiedwhat makes you valuable, then you need to focus your time,as much as possible, on those most valuable activities.I'll give you some strategies to help you maintain focus,both in scheduling your activities and in eliminatingthe little distractions that happen throughout your day.

When you combine the identificationof your most valuable activities with the strategy of focus,you'll take significant stepstoward enhancing your productivity.

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Q: This course was updated on 01/03/2012. What changed?

A: This course was retitled, streamlined, and refined throughout, resulting in a slightly shorter runtime. We also added new graphics and a new welcome movie.